Bear Donnelly

Bear Donnelly (1936-) was an Irish Mob member and an associate of Thomas Burke.

Biography
Bear Donnelly was an Irish-born resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he became involved with Thomas Burke's Irish Mob in Pointe Verdun. Donnelly saw himself as a man in Burke's debt, and he had a crush on his lesbian daughter Nicki Burke, claiming that he was going to marry her someday. He spied on Sonny Blue's operations at the Roberdeau Meat Packing plant in 1968, supplying Lincoln Clay with information on Sonny's operations. After Clay took Sonny Blue down, Donnelly decided to become a narcotics trafficker in Frisco Fields, based out of the Quik Lodge Motel. Donnelly helped Clay with the destruction of his rival, Olivia Marcano, and her PCP business so that he could become a dealer in the district.